Recent content by GrahamWills

I started a replay through of the game, mostly to refresh my memory after 8 years. Here is a rough guide to adversaries in the game Runners: Can see you. But they can be strangled which uses no resources. Only really a problem in packs. Clickers: Cannot see you and navigate by sound. They...

Pendragon is a pretty unique beast. I've mostly been involved with D&D4E, PF2, Fate, 13th Age, CoC and Gumshoe campaigns and it feels very different. Part of that is the slow pacing; a game session typically corresponds to a year of time, so a romance subplot can take years to develop. Players...

I took a while to get here. I was posting on rec.games.frp.misc in 1992, then was on the forge (not sure those dates), then rpg.net around 2005, and then enworld in 2008. That was about the time I started playing D&D regularly.

This fits within the Bill and Ted framework for being a good person, and so is clearly a good set of guidelines: BE EXCELLENT TO ONE ANOTHER Be A Fan of The Other Characters Be aware of the amount of spotlight time you’re taking Make choices which support other characters’ reality Learn what...

Hmmm. I don't think it's changed that much. You have 300 points to spend on skills, and your rifle skill starts at 25%. As a soldier it seems a bit over-restrictive to assume that I'd only put 15 points into my main skill. Even putting in 50 out of 300 into your main skill makes a lot of sense...

Let's try a specific scenario to try and add a bit of quantification to this question: Assume a starting player character designed for combat uses their favorite weapon to attack an exact copy of themselves using a readily available weapon at preferred range, and that both are aware of each...

The Fate SRD presents two options for being taken out. The first presented is that they can indeed die. The second is to choose another options. The reasoning they give is this: “The latter approach is recommended, mainly for the following reason: most of the time, sudden character death is a...

It's a very different system. It's heavily based on player versus player action, so that's a strike for people who like a less cutthroat environment. It's diceless, which many people dislike, and, of course, it's all about drama, not defeating the environment and becoming more powerful. When I...

Pendragon: Ignoring giants and dragons, where any successful usually kills a knight in full armor, if you take a critical from a charge by any old knight, and fail to raise your shield, that's 9d6-8 vs your 25-30ish hits. Death is pretty likely.

BRP (Call of Cthulhu) obviously: You get shot up close with a shotgun, you probably die.

DramaSystem: If you have allowed a character who is you character's enemy to assemble enough tokens, they can effectively narrate you dead. (This has happened to me, but I lived long enough to get my murderer exiled. Family can be a real hassle) Edit: Oops, OP required death by dice, not...

Fate: A W:4 attack which rolls 4 higher than your defenses has you taking a critical injury. GM tags one more aspect than you can, and you're dead. especially nasty is hard sci-fi versions of Fate, such as Mindjammer. An augmented warrior with monofil blade is rolling at +4 better than you with...

Jaeger, I get what you are saying, but there really is a reason why trademarks and copyright are different. The former is to ensure that you know that the entity you are dealing with is who you think they are. The second is to protect an inventor from having their work stolen. These are really...

Can you perfectly replicate the state of mind you would have had if you did not know some piece of information? No, I believe you are correct there. But I do believe you can do it well enough for game purposes. And, since we are in the context of playing a game, I think that is really where we...

Honestly, it's not realistic to assume they could be a fighter. A 5E fighter, for example, has the following class ability: "You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty". So how do you realistically reconcile a "18-year-old fresh off the farm with their grandfather's dented...